On: GCFS: a Garbage-Collected Filesystem for Linux

[SoftwareMaven]

I just tried to do a directory hard link and it failed.

  $ ln ~ hardlinkdir
  ln: /Users/travis: Is a directory
  $ ln -s ~ hardlinkdir
  $

My guess is that they have implemented something like soft links with cleaner shell support, so you can't tell they are something like soft links.

[wzdd → SoftwareMaven]

The ln command just doesn't expose the functionality.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80875/what-is-the-bash-co...

[tobias3 → wzdd]

hmm I guess you can do too much damage with directory hardlinks. Like link the root into your home directory. A recursive delete on the home directory would then delete all files...